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Monday, June 10, 2013

Ed.--This has been going on for more than a few months: I attempt to send an email to a journalist at one of their articles, say at The Telegraph, Disnfo.com, Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo (this one took, no response--did it ever make it?), and numerous other progressive web sites and news publications. Either I cannot successfully send the filled-out form/message, or I get no replies, having no idea if they ever got the national security information about the DC Madam case I was apprising them of. I'm sure a few of them got it and reflected on their mortgages, sure. I've even had a semi-retired journalist who covered the intelligence beat who told me they contacted some of their other colleagues who are still working with no responses, no apparent interest. This, of course, is going on their word, a person I've never even spoken to on the phone, so there it is, I have only their word, and in these times, that ain't enough.Do I know that I'm being hacked, can I prove it? No, but I was during the case and was surveilled, unquestionably, and it followed me onto Facebook and maybe now onto to Twitter, although it seems far more blunted. Now that we know Facebook was giving the NSA direct access, some of the harassment I was subjected to on there could be viewed in a new light. But like the victims of COINTELPRO and all the other government/private harassment programs targeting dissent in the US, I cannot prove it without herculean effort. We're talking numerous filings of FOIAs (Freedom of Information Act requests for documents on myself, whether I was being watched), but anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of this knows the Government isn't going to cough it up without one hell of a fight.What I'm asking my readers is this: I need your help in sending out this form email that I'll paste-in below. I just attempted to send it to the journalist James Fallows at The Atlantic without any luck. It could be nothing, it could be a glitch on their part, there could be a cookie in my browser doing it, but I cannot get to the bottom of it, there seems to be no other solution then to have others send these emails on my behalf. There's nothing in this email message that I haven't written or published here on this blog, it's generalized. If you know a serious journalist covering national security issues, or you simply read on the subject a lot and have a reasonably secure email account, I need you to submit this letter to news sites, blogs, journalists, progressive web sites, and so on, I need your help and would appreciate it greatly. Thank you.

And without being too prolix, here's the text of the letter. Anyone who sends it off in my name, unredacted and unaltered has my full permission:

Good day, I was a member of the DC Madam's defense team back
in late 2007, early 2008. We were granted wide-ranging subpoena powers over the
telecoms as well as the intelligence community by Federal District Judge Gladys
Kessler, who, I might add, was shortly after that replaced without any
explanation by a board of judges (a board she was on!) by former FISA Court
judge James Robertson. He quashed all of that once on board for reasons that I
think were obvious: the case involved surveillance, most likely of her escort
service which had a large percentage of defense/intelligence contractors,
military and intelligence officers, and a whole lot more. No one seems to want
to touch this element of what was erroneously defined by the MSM as a simple
sex scandal--it was not, it was far more. I don't expect you to answer because
I'm always meeting a wall of silence on this.

I was hired as a general researcher by the late Ms. Palfrey
in December 2007 and paid by the federal defender's office for my work, but I
did far more pro bono after that month. Indeed, we were going through the
subpoenaed phone records that had been provided by one of her carriers,
Verizon, but AT&T and Sprint had yet to comply when Judge Kessler was abruptly
replaced in the middle of the night in late November. But, we had the records
that went much deeper into who had a phone number and a cell or landline--the
whens and wheres--and came up with a stunning array that represented the
national security state and their contractors and employees on both fronts. One
of them was Ret. Col. Ron Roughead, brother to now-retired CNO Gary Roughead.
The former worked for SAIC the last I knew and that firm came up in materials
and outside of them so many times as not to be coincidental. I could go on and
on with the very solid connections between players, but I will leave you with
one example: there was one call, and one call only, from a former Verizon
engineer with a Muslim name who was also an early war on terror arrest, in the
DC area. I won't name him here, but his story was in the press and articles can
be found online.

I should also add that we found some indications of
intelligence activities in a hack of her email account going back to fall of
1998--yes, it could have been anyone, but they were being forwarded all of the
ingoing and outgoing items in it, beyond the sophistication of the average
internet user that year. It was a Yahoo.uk account. We got bounce-backs that I
identified when the surveillance account was closed. Oddly, the bounce-backs
contained the text of a 419 scam, a Nigerian one that's well-known, a fake
barrister's note. This wasn't directed at us and was a clear glitch. It has
been written that--and I cannot speak to the veracity of it--419 scams have
been known to be used as covers for intelligence operations. And there is more,
much more. I wrote an account on the case that's heavily-detailed and contains
literally hundreds of emails between the late Ms. Palfrey, myself, and others,
primary documents, court filings, etc., down to her autopsy report. The story's
not cold, incidentally, since no one ever got to the real dynamics of it, other
than myself and a few others. The press was ill-equipped to do so, or
unwilling, but I cannot say decisively.

This NSA story, I believe, has a direct relation to what
happened to Ms. Palfrey and her escort service. I've experienced strange online
harassment, visits from contractors to my blog
(http://chickasawpicklesmell.blogspot.com), hacking of accounts--you name it,
outside of physical confrontation and/or shadowing. I implore you to at least
consider this story in light of recent events, to look deeper, or to pass some
of this along, and this is just the tip of the iceberg here.